mikro2nd

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by mikro2nd 4y ago
Was thinking along these lines earlier when I saw that Mastodon now has something north of 7M users (including bots? are there many bots there? some, for sure, but probably not a lot). 7M is the population of a good-size city. Twitter has s
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
I think what's going on in those cases is that people are heavily invested in Twitter, believing their bulk audience is there, but (understandably) want to hedge their bets. Lots of them are posting the same stuff to both Twitter and M
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
Vandalism? More like willful self-harm!
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
Why are you so self-obsessed?
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
Bullshit. If the designers didn't go there first the consumers would have had nothing to vote on.
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
Pity the writeup didn't go into (or provide pointers to) how to go about it...
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
Funny... I think the exact opposite. The spammers and bot-herders will flock to buy blue ticks in order to look more legit. The rest of us don't basically give a fuck.
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
Citing some evidence to back your theory might make your claim more convincing.
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
Complete nonsense. Smart cars (to pick just one counterexample) meet those standards without being big or looking angry.
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
I think what will sink Twitter will be if Mr Musk goes ahead with his plan (as he's stated) to have "blue tick" tweets all float to the top while deprecating tweets from non-paying users. In my world $8/month seems an
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
Why do so many cars look so angry ? Big front grilles that look like a growling, howling maw full of teeth, bulging, muscular body shaping... It's like car designers all got together and decided that aggressive-ugly is a good look. I
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
I think that "pubescent" does not mean what you appear to think it means.
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
GPL?
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
That's cool for you. For the rest of us, however, it would be terribly simple for Github to provide a profile/account setting that allows people to opt out -- perhaps on a per-repo level as well as per-account. Yet they don't
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
But not, I'll hazard a guess (ianal), if its a Gnu GPL license. Right?
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
On Mastodon there's a setting "Require follow requests : Manually control who can follow you by approving follow requests" so you get to whitelist Real People. Not as onerous as you suggest.
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
> stops casual interaction ... and the often hilarious scene that ensues when you don't share a common language. Some of my best memories are made of things like this.
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
She invented Assembler language! This one really deserves a HN "black header" imho.
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Kathleen Booth, computer pioneer – obituary(telegraph.co.uk)
1 points by mikro2nd 4y ago|1 comments
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
Well, YES! since so much of the tech industry has a triangular thing that they insist is a wheel and obstinately refuse to engage with those round things, despite the round things having been around for quite a long time. (I'm talk
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
Controversial opinion: If you can't make money from your website without shoving ads in my face, perhaps you should seek either: * another monetisation scheme for your website, or * a different line of business than a website. The race
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
Yep. I was never totally sure who was bullshitting me, the manager/interviewer or the recruiter person who'd started the ball rolling, hence my "supposedly" above.
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
Funny (true) story: In one memorable case, I went the opposite route and stated my salary expectations up front, knowing full well that they were likely above the HR-approved salary scales the company was likely to offer. The point was I wa
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
Actual headline: Patients in England at risk as NHS and care 'gridlocked'
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
Not the only meaning of "legitimate". There's also "Authentic, real, genuine" and "Conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards; valid." (Wiktionary) There's a questio
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
Do you in the UK have any means to recall an MP and force a by-election? (for whatever reason -- gone rogue, gone awol, gone loony, etc.)
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
It has already, and long ago. It's just not very intelligent. Have you had any serious (non-routine) dealings with a bank or phone co. lately? Nobody you can talk to has any agency, any authority to do anything other than what the algo
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
Not so. I, too, have no smartphone and no Twitter app. Not ever been suspended (yet).
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
And evidently I'm not allowed to swear. "Fuck" gets unfailingly "corrected" to "duck" -- even if I spell it out.
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
I agree with you regarding Zuckerberg -- he's in the same camp as every politician (imho). Nevertheless, if you don't have anything substantive to say, it's always an option to just not say anything. Just saying.

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